Article ID: CBB269148677

“Now Is a Time for Optimism”: The Politics of Personalized Medicine in Mental Health Research (2019)

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Rüppel, Jonas (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 581-611


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health
Language: English

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, personalized medicine has become one of the most influential visions guiding medical research. This paper focuses on the politics of personalized medicine in psychiatry as a medical specialty, which has rarely been investigated by social science scholars. I examine how this vision is being sustained and even increasingly institutionalized within the mental health arena, even though related research has repeatedly failed. Based on a document analysis and expert interviews, this article identifies discursive strategies that help to sustain this vision and its promises: “complexity talk,” “extension,” and “boundary work.” These practices secure its plausibility, protect it from criticism, and maintain stakeholder support.

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Article Jonas Rüppel; Torsten H. Voigt (2019) The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 567-580). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Pickersgill, Martyn
Dondici, Danilo
Tommaso Bruni
Phillip H. Roth
Maieron, Mario Augusto
Guelfi, Gian Paolo
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental health and illness
Medicine and society
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Medicine
Clinical psychology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
Institutions
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
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